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T1 Ariadna en Nuevo México : mujer y mito en la "Historia de la Nueva Mexico de Gaspar de Villagrá"
A1 Martín Rodríguez, Antonio María
K1 Gaspar de Villagrá
K1 Humanism
K1 Classical tradition
K1 Representation of women
K1 Myth
K1 New Mexican natives
K1 Humanismo
K1 Tradición clásica
K1 Representación de la mujer
K1 Mito
K1 Indígenas nuevomexicanos
AB In the Age of Humanism, the characters of classical myth were believed to be nothing more than imaginary figures whose existence was exclusively linked to a literary realm. Heroines such as Medea, Ariadne or the Amazons still continued to exert an irresistible appeal, yet they could hardly be taken as models of real-life women. However, the era of new discoveries laid before the conquerors’ eyes real women doing feats till then only imaginable in the world of myth. Epic poems, however, describe these female figures distorted through the lenses of classical mythology. Within such a conceptual framework, I shall attempt to study female representation in La Historia de la Nueva México and, more concretely, refer to the use of two seemingly contradictory procedures: realism and stylization. The former is employed, above all, in the representation of the anonymous indigenous woman. The latter works in two different ways: assigning a wide range of positive attributes to the female characters and presenting distorted representations of them, woven through the yarn of the classical tradition.
PB Universidad de Alcalá. Servicio de Publicaciones
YR 2012
FD 2012
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10017/11062
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10017/11062
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DS MINDS@UW
RD 25-abr-2024